Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007:
Next Steps for the Web Management Community
Innovation Competition

IWMW 2007 Innovation Competition

This year we are inviting IWMW 2007 participants to submit lightweight examples of innovative uses of Web technologies which may be of interest to IWMW 2007 participants.

This could include:

• 'Mashups' which integrate content from multiple sources
• Informative, educational or entertaining use of multimedia (e.g. podcasts, YouTube videos, etc.)
• Informative, educational or entertaining use of 3D virtual environments such as Second Life.
• Seamless access to content using technologies such as OpenID.

The innovation might be based on work you have been involved in within your organisation. Alternatively you may wish to produce an entry specifically for IWMW 2007. Workshop facilitators may wish to produce an innovation which aims to encourage participants to sign up for their session or for use during the workshop itself or IWMW 2007 participants might wish to produce an innovation afterwards about the event.

Prize Winners

Please note that the prize-winners were:

• Sebastian Rahtz's Alternative Course Discovery using Calendars and Maps (first place)
• Michael Nolan's How To Find Us and Hi From Edge Hill (second place)
• Paul Walk's Community Focus Mashup (equal third)
• Mike Ellis Mashed Museums Directory (equal third)

Submission Template

When submitting your competition entry could you include the following information:

Name and Affiliation

Your contacts details.

Title

The title of your innovation.

User Benefits

The benefits to users i.e. what users will gain from using this innovation.

Ease

How the innovation was created and the ease of creating it.

Coolness!

What makes this innovation cooler than the rest!

Background to the Work

Describe why the submission was developed.

Openness

State your position regarding the openness of your submisssion.

For further information contact b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk. Entries should be submitted to the same address and added as a comment to the UK Web Focus blog post about the competition.

Note that user-focussed entries will be particularly welcomed. Feel free to submit humorous and entertaining examples.

Resources

A number of general resources including RSS feeds and timeline displays relating to the Institutional Web Management Workshop series of events are available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/iwmw/.

Participants can also use download an XML file of this year's delegate data.

Any questions you have regarding resources please contact b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk.

Deadline

The deadline for the competition was originally scheduled to be Monday 9^th July. However this was extended until 15^th July. The winner was announced on the final day of the IWMW 2007 event on Wednesday 18^th July 2007.

Submissions

Sixteen submissions to the competition were received. Please follow the link to view them.

• Submission 1: IWMW timeline
• Submission 2: Community Focus Mashup
• Submission 3: Yahoo! Pipes For IWMW RSS Feeds
• Submission 4: Data-Driven Event Web Site
• Submission 5: Mashed Museum Directory
• Submission 6: A Searchable Repository Map
• Submission 7: Mash up of the Service Oriented approach by JISC and Personal Learning Environments
• Submission 8: Whack A Speaker!
• Submission 9: MyNewport - MyLearning Essentials for Facebook
• Submission 10: How To Find Us
• Submission 11: Hi from Edge Hill
• Submission 12: IWMW News Aggregator
• Submission 13: Mobile Learning Objects
• Submission 14: Wiki-Powered Self-Serve Meeting Scheduling
• Submission 15: Alternative course discovery using calendars and maps
• Submission 16: Life On Sram (or Adrian Stephenson's Travels in Time in Historic York)

Examples

The following examples are also available. Please note that these examples will not be entered into the competition. However the data is freely available and you may wish to use the data to build applications for submission to the competition.

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1. Location of all IWMW events

Display of location of all 11 IWMW events, based on RSS feed containing GeoRSS data, processed by the ACME.com application

[View location] - [View data (RSS)] - [Validate data (RSS)]

2. Location of speakers and facilitators at IWMW 2007

Display the host institution of the speakers and workshop facilitators at IWMW 2007

[View location (speakers)] - [View data (RSS)] - [Validate data (RSS)]

[View location (facilitators)] - [View data (RSS)] - [Validate data (RSS)]

3. OPML Interface to IWMW RSS Feeds

A JavaScript interface to the RSS feeds for the IWMW events.

Feel free to embed this interface in your own resource.

4. OPML Interface to IWMW 2007 Blog Feeds

A JavaScript interface to the RSS feeds for bloggers at IWMW 2007. Note a list of the feeds is also available

 

RSS Feed

Please note that an RSS Feed of the submissions to the competition is available.